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How We Are Using Btrfs To Find Regressions Incredibly Fast

Phoronix: How We Are Using Btrfs To Find Regressions Incredibly Fast

In previous articles I have hinted that at Phoronix we are working to take advantage of the Btrfs file-system within the Phoronix Test Suite and Phoromatic to provide an interesting feature that will further expand our automated testing capabilities, but how does this file-system come into play? Well, here is what's being worked on and it should be of terrific value to many people.

Hello there Phoronix-Team,
I just read this article and I'm curious about the concept of sharing some test-systems to help testing and probably finding bugs in the kernel and other oss/gpl software.

Is the concept similar to i.e. sharing cpu/ram/time like Boinc?
Well, I got a root server and a more than idling oversized-NAS back at home.
In both cases I could offer some ressources to set up some VMs for regression testing the mentioned software packages/pieces for free.

Hello there Phoronix-Team,
I just read this article and I'm curious about the concept of sharing some test-systems to help testing and probably finding bugs in the kernel and other oss/gpl software.

Is the concept similar to i.e. sharing cpu/ram/time like Boinc?
Well, I got a root server and a more than idling oversized-NAS back at home.
In both cases I could offer some ressources to set up some VMs for regression testing the mentioned software packages/pieces for free.

that is really cool. The author of the article mentioned companies with ressources in their intranet.
The question for me is, what effort is necessary to run an infrastructure which is any useful to the project.

For example: Are changes to the VM Host necessary or will there be basic VM templates to use.